Category: Romania
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![[Romania] Bike weekend with kids around Sibiu](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img-20240601-wa0068.jpg?w=1024)
[Romania] Bike weekend with kids around Sibiu
As the Sibiu county area offers lots of options to stay outdoors and active and as all our family members are, starting this year, bike aficionados, here is one of our first bike weekends of 2024.
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![[Romania] Going West to Timișoara](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20230430_162049.jpg?w=1024)
[Romania] Going West to Timișoara
There aren’t too many cities in Romania I really recommend visiting mostly because they lack the vibe that we are looking for, but Timișoara has for some years now gotten on our radar. The city is in 2023 the European Capital of Culture, so some extra reasons to enjoy some days here. As a tip,…
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![[Romania] Street/Fast Food in Sibiu](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cover.jpg?w=1024)
[Romania] Street/Fast Food in Sibiu
Street Food in Sibiu is, in my humble opinion, a sort of a myth. We don’t really have this street food mentality and unfortunately, the city tends to get full of wannabe street food places with pretzels, frozen pizza and sandwiches filled with too much mayonnaise and garlic. Still, here is a (too) short list…
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![[Romania] The Tureni Gorges](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20220827_125808.jpg?w=1024)
[Romania] The Tureni Gorges
The gorges near Tureni village, in Cluj county, are a hidden gem visible from the Transylvania Highway, on the way from Turda to Gilău, but just a few really visit them.
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![[Romania] One week in Roșia Montană](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2028/08/20220801_180021.jpg?w=1024)
[Romania] One week in Roșia Montană
Roșia Montană is, starting 2021, as it well deserves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Some more than excellent piece of news that we considered was very much worth celebrating so we took a whole week of vacation (actually 10 days) this summer to spend it in and around the village (not to mention, of course,…
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![[Romania] Camping and caves in the Apuseni Mountains](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/20220530_160422.jpg?w=1024)
[Romania] Camping and caves in the Apuseni Mountains
For this year’s 1st of June (International Children’s Day) we were looking for a new opportunity to spend some quality family time outdoors with our daughter and a camping trip seemed about right. We combined it with exploring some caves in the Apuseni Mountains and with having some friends with us and it turned out…
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![[Romania] Saxon Trek 2021](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20211009_114829.jpg?w=1024)
[Romania] Saxon Trek 2021
Our small Saxon Trek project got to its third year of existence in 2021. With some changes this time, it was way shorter (a weekend instead of a week) and we managed to convince friends to join us. Beginning of October, with pleasant temperatures, with trees playing with their autumn colors and with the usual…
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![[Romania] Hiking and camping at the Capra Lake](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_20210817_113237.jpg?w=1024)
[Romania] Hiking and camping at the Capra Lake
Summer is definitely for high altitudes. And the Făgăraș Mountains are so close by, that for us, a few days off from work, a good weather forecast and a couple of friends easily turn into a nice hike up on the ridge.
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![[Romania] Saxon Trek 2020](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20200918_1130181.jpg?w=1024)
[Romania] Saxon Trek 2020
Saxon Trek is about discovering the Saxon villages step by step, walking from village to village in search of their personality, discovering their history, culture, traditions and gastronomy. In 2019 we started this journey with a one week of walking in a loop, from one village to another, a 150 kilometers walk, with forests, hills,…
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![[Romania] A kids Slow Food Project in Sibiu](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/dsc_5936.jpg?w=1024)
[Romania] A kids Slow Food Project in Sibiu
Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, counteract the rise of fast life and combat people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how our food choices affect the world around us. The Slow Food Trail (Poteca…

![[Romania] Camping and hiking weekend at the Bârcaciu chalet and the Avrig Lake](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/20230826_134321.jpg?w=1024)
![[Romania] Sibiu and its restaurants](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/gab_7598.jpg?w=1024)